As a way of looking back over this monster year, on Twitter over the past week we’ve been counting down the best of 2015’s blog – the Top Ten most viewed Grant Museum posts of last year*. Looking back, it’s certain that we’ve had a top year in terms of blogging, with 93 posts from Team Grant. But what were the best posts?

I’ve announced those ranking at 10 to 2 in the charts, and exclusively revealing here that the most popular post of 2015 is…

So, for the second year running, UFFOTM has topped the charts. Given that the whole point of the series is that it should be underwhelming, dull, unworthy of note and in all ways beige, it’s clear that we are failing in our aims for the fish. Not only did February’s post outshine all our other blog posts, but five other months would have appeared in the Top Ten if it weren’t for the fact that this would further display the series’ overwhelming inability to underwhelm. As a result the Top Ten below should in theory be more fossil fishy, but instead we chose to display a bit more variety and a bit less smudged grey slate.

A great list showing a real diversity of specimen stories, life behind the scenes at museums, big developments in the Grant Museum, some traditional natural history, awesome art practice, and opinions from our expert staff. Let’s hope 2016 is just as interesting.

*for the sake of statistical truthfulness, our numbers are imperfect as we can’t count any page views that are generated by people clicking on links in our e-newsletter. The Top Ten here is based on page views from all other sources combined.